Journal box



A. E. OSTRANDER AND' H. H. WILLIAMS. JOURNAL BOX. APPLlcATloN FILED MAB. 23. 192|. 1 ,415,045, .Patented May9, 1922.

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ALLEN E. OSTRANDER, OF RIDGEWOOD, NEW' JERSEY, .AND .HERBERT H. WILLIAMS, OF BROOKLYBTt NEVI YORK, ASSIGNORS 011 ONE-HALE' T0 AMERICAN, GAR AND FOUNDRY COMPANY, OF NEW YORK. N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY, AND ONE-HALF, TO METROEOLITAN ENGINEERING COMPANY, 0F BROUKl'aYll',A NEW YORK, A CORPORATION 'OF NEW YORK.

JOURNAL BOX.

Specification of Letters Patent. Paigntled Blay 9, 1922,

Application led March 23, 1921. Serial No. 454,764.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that ALLEN E. UsTiiANnnn ant HERBERT H. lVILLIAMs, residing at Ridgem wood, county of Bergen, and State of New Jersey, and Brooklyn, county oi Kings, and

State of New York, respectively, and being' citizens of the United States, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Journal Box, ot which the following is a full, clear. and exact description, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and to use the same, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, which illustrate the preferred form of the invention, though it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the exact details of construction shown and described, as it is obvious that various modifications thereof within the scope ot' the claims will occur to persons skilled in the art.

ln said drawings:

Figure 1 is a side elevation, partly in section and partly broken away, of our improved journal box;

Figure 2 is a top plan view, partly in section and partly broken away;

Figure 3 is a section taken on the line 3mi-5 of Fig. 2; and

Figure 4 is a section taken on the line 4-4 of Fig. 1.

It is the object of our invention to provide an improved pressed metal journal box that shall be of great strength and durability and can be manufactured at comparatively small cost.

In the embodiment of our invention shown in the drawings, the box comprises a pressed sheet metal cellar 1, a pressed sheet metal top 2, a cast steel or drop forged reentorcing piece 3 which also serves as the upper yoke for the journal box bolts, a lower yoke 4 for the journal box bolts and a dust guard pocket 5.

The sheet metal cellar 1 has its sides 6 corrugated, as at 7, to receive the journal box bolts, the corrugations becoming gradually wider towards the bottom of the box and extending completely across the bottom 8 of the cellar 1 so as to receive the yoke 4. The yoke 4 is also recessed, as shown in Fig. 3, to receive the cellar 1 so that the cellar 1 and yoke 4 interlock and the stresses i i are transmitted trom one to the other without danger of rupturing the welds 9 that secure the yoke 4 to the cellar 1. The reeniforcing piece 3 comprises a portion 10 adapted to reenforce the box top 2 and having, at its sides, outwardly extending lugs 11, provided with openings to receive the journal 'box bolts, and downwardly extend- .ing projections 12 that serve as stops for the journal brasses and are .recessed to receive the corrugations formed-in the sides 6. At its front edges the reenforcing member 3 is provided with a plurality of downwardly extending projections 13 that serve as stops for the ournal box wedge.-

The dust guard pocket 5 comprises apiece 14 having an axle opening therein, the metal of the piece 14 surrounding the opening be ing bent outwardly and backwardly so as to form an annular slot adapted to receive the inwardly projecting edges of the sides 6 and bottom 8 of the cellar 1 and the rear edge of the top 2, the edges of the sides and bottom being cut to conform to the shape of the opening, as shown in Fig. 3. On three sides, the edges of the piece 14 are bent outwardly, opposite to the direction given the metal surrounding the opening, and are welded to the similarly bent edges of the piece 15 that is also provided with an axle opening therein.

The top 2 comprises a flat sheet of metal having its edges bent'on three sides to engage with the sides 6 ot the cellar 1 and the dust guard piece 14. The top 2 is cut away on opposite sides, as at 16, and the sides 6 of the cellar 1 are also cut at these points and bent outwardly to furnish openings through which the projections 11 on the reenforcing member 3 extend. The outwardly bent portions 17 of the sides 6 constitute shoulders upon which the reenforcing member 3 rests.

The top 2 and the cellar 1 are welded t0- gether along the line 18 and thus hold theV rampas What we claim is:

l. ln a journal box, a pressed metal cellar, a pressed metal top and an inner reeniioreing member Jier said top secured between said cellar and top and adapted to serve as a stop for the journal brass.

2. ln a journal box, a pressed metal cel! lar, a pressed metal top secured to said cellar and a reenforcing member for said top having projections extending outwardly between said top and cellar.

3. ln a journal box, a pressed metal cellar, a pressed metal top and a reentorcing member for said top havinga projections eX- tending between said top and cellar adapted to receive the journal bof; bolts.

4c. ln a journal box, a pressed metal cellar, a pressed metal top and a reenforcing member 'for said top adapted to be held in place by engagement with said top and cellar.

5. ln a journal boX, a pressed metal cellar, a pressed metal top and a dust guard pocket secured to said box by securing said top to said cellar.

6, In a journal box, a pressed metal cellar, a pressed metal top secured thereto and a dust guard pocket and a reenforcing member secured in position by said top and cellar.

7 ln a journal box, a pressed metal cellar, a pressed metal top and a d'ust guard member Welded to said rst flanged member.

8. ln a journal boX, a pressed metal cellar recessed to receive a journal boxbolt yoke and a journal box bolt yoke secured to said cellar and recessed to receive said cellar.

9. in a journal box, a cellar, a top and a reeniiorcing` member for said top having projections extending through openings in said cellar and said top and secured in position by securing said top to said cellar. e

i0. ln a journal. boX, a pressed metal cellar, a pressed metal top and a 'reenforcing member for said top adapted to be carried upon said cellar Walls.

il. A journal box comprising top and cellar sections and yokes for the journal box bolts interlocking with said sections.

12. A journal box comprising` top and cel. lar sections and a yoke for the journal bof: clts interlocking with each section.

in Witness whereof We have hereunto set our hands in the presence of tWo witnesses ALLEN E. GSTRANDEE. HERBERT H. VVILLAMS.

Witnesses z L. V. JOYCE, Bessin l). STRONG. 

